maxxkatt
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Some progressive European countries (the people who brought us 2 world wars) are going cashless so goodbye to dropped coins. One guy posted that he thought that the metal detector technology would advance where we could detect a Rosie at 2 feet. Hmmm, digging two feet holes?
I even see evidence of fewer dropped coins in the past two years. I used to go to Quicktrip to get my cup of coffee every morning. Quicktrip in Georgia is like Racetrack and other very high volume gas stations/food store. I would walk the parking lot and gas pumps and easily pay for half of my coffee or even more. I would find between 50 cents and sometimes more than a dollar in dropped change. walking a Quicktrip today does not even hardly produce a zinc penny.
But two things absolutely killed that. The debit/credit card and keyless ignition. Both of these relieved the man from the necessity of reaching in his pocket for his keys or change. Thus the end of dropped change everywhere.
A wise friend of mine who passed several year ago stated this.
Collect silver dimes and quarters, do not melt them down. He said when a huge calamity or economic failure occurs in the US small silver denominations will be the honest coin of the realm.
Our communications system is getting so complex and intertwined that it would not take much to destroy it. Our military has stated that an attack by EMP weapons could bring this country to its knees. Our trucking, trains, airplanes with computers needed to even start them would be rendered useless. And do we have any shade tree mechanics left who could by-pass the computers in all of these machines to even get them started. No trucks, not gas, no food, no nothing.
Goodbye Internet - hello living in the 1700's.
I even see evidence of fewer dropped coins in the past two years. I used to go to Quicktrip to get my cup of coffee every morning. Quicktrip in Georgia is like Racetrack and other very high volume gas stations/food store. I would walk the parking lot and gas pumps and easily pay for half of my coffee or even more. I would find between 50 cents and sometimes more than a dollar in dropped change. walking a Quicktrip today does not even hardly produce a zinc penny.
But two things absolutely killed that. The debit/credit card and keyless ignition. Both of these relieved the man from the necessity of reaching in his pocket for his keys or change. Thus the end of dropped change everywhere.
A wise friend of mine who passed several year ago stated this.
Collect silver dimes and quarters, do not melt them down. He said when a huge calamity or economic failure occurs in the US small silver denominations will be the honest coin of the realm.
Our communications system is getting so complex and intertwined that it would not take much to destroy it. Our military has stated that an attack by EMP weapons could bring this country to its knees. Our trucking, trains, airplanes with computers needed to even start them would be rendered useless. And do we have any shade tree mechanics left who could by-pass the computers in all of these machines to even get them started. No trucks, not gas, no food, no nothing.
Goodbye Internet - hello living in the 1700's.